rien

See also: Rien, ríen, and rieŋ

French

Etymology

From Middle French rien, from Old French rien, from Latin rem, accusative of rēs (thing).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʁjɛ̃/
  • (file)

Pronoun

rien

  1. nothing
    • Antoine Lavoisier
      Rien ne se perd, rien ne se crée, tout se transforme.
      Nothing is lost, nothing is created, everything is transformed.
  2. (archaic) anything
    • 1630, François de Malherbe, Le traité des bienfaits de Sénèque, III, 10
      En tous les bienfaits d'importance, la preuve ne peut avoir de lieu ; car il n'y a bien souvent que deux qui en sachent rien .

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Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch *rīan, from Proto-Germanic *rīhaną.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈriːən/

Verb

riën

  1. to sew together, to put a thread through

Inflection

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Alternative forms

Descendants

  • Dutch: rijgen
  • Limburgish: riege

Further reading

  • riën (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, 1929

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French rien.

Noun

rien f (plural riens)

  1. thing (miscellaneous item)

Descendants

References

  • Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (rien)

Old French

Alternative forms

  • ren (Anglo-Norman)

Etymology

From Latin rem, accusative of rēs.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ri̯ẽn/
  • Rhymes: -ẽn

Noun

rien f (oblique plural riens, nominative singular riens, nominative plural riens)

  1. thing; object
  2. being; creature

Pronoun

rien

  1. thing
  2. (used with "ne") nothing

Descendants


Tumleo

Noun

rien

  1. water

References

  • Stephen Adolphe Wurm, New Guinea Area Languages and Language Study (1976)
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